VINTON, Iowa (KCRG) - Staff and customers at Vinton Family Restaurant are coming together to remember waitress Crystal Offerman who died in a crash.

The crash happened on Highway 218 last Friday afternoon.

The Iowa State Patrol said a school bus hit the back of Offerman’s vehicle and pushed it into oncoming traffic.

Offerman’s co-workers are trying to honor her memory by supporting her children.

“It’s terrible for anyone, but hoping: ‘Oh dear, don’t let that be our Crystal’,” Roxie Higgins, a Vinton Family Restaurant waitress said. ”And it was, and is, just devastating. It’s very, very, very, hard for each and every one of us to believe that this actually happened,” Higgins said.

Offerman’s coworkers said they considered her family.

“When we first met, we were just normal co-worker

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